On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 15:31 +0200, Mischa Peters wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Is there a way to define the number for imap-login processes and pop3-login
> processes separately?
>
> My mail server is getting more IMAP clients and much less POP3 clients these
> days and it continues to run out of authentication processes.
> I have been increasing login_max_processes_count the last couple of days and
> I noticed that it's split between IMAP and POP3.
> All 129 imap-login processes are tied up while there are only 3 of the 129
> pop3-login processes in use.
You can probably put the settings inside protocol pop3 {} and protocol
imap {}. But maybe you should switch to high-performance mode:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/LoginProcess
